From Hildburg Bruns
He looks like a parcel station in orange. The Kiez-Locker is an invention of BSR and the Fraunhofer Institute. For good used items that are to be given away. Can this box make Berlin cleaner?
On-site visit by Franziska Giffey (45, SPD), the new Senator for Economics, on Ringbahnstrasse (Tempelhof). The Kiez lockers (24 boxes) are currently being tested here at the headquarters of the Berlin city cleaning department – the largest is 75 x 48 x 61 centimetres.
A new silver bullet against those annoying giveaway piles on the sidewalks? In any case, you need a fairly complex preparation.
This is how it works: You register on www.BSR.de/Kiez-Locker with name, email, cell phone number. This is important so that criminals do not get the idea of doing their drug deals here, for example.
A discarded mattress and a damaged closet lie on a sidewalk. The BSR is now responsible for disposing of such uncontrolled deposits Photo: picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild | Philip Znidar
Anyone who is registered can post a photo of their gift on a virtual marketplace. If someone is interested, you book a compartment and the recipient is informed. “We see how it is accepted and where there are possible installation areas,” says BSR boss Stephanie Otto (56).
More cleanliness in the city – a major concern of Giffey. Since May 2nd, the BSR has been disposing of illegal waste deposits even without a special order from the district authorities. “A wish of mine for years has come true,” says Giffey. The city cleaning receives an additional 4.2 million euros/year from the state of Berlin.
For the southern districts alone from Wannsee to Schmöckwitz (Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Tempelhof-Schoeneberg, Neukölln and Treptow-Köpenick) 35 employees with twelve loading crane vehicles are in action. Of course, the reports are also taken from the regulatory authorities. Not only bulky waste, but also rubble.
“Our goal is that nothing is left for more than ten days,” says BSR cleaning manager Axel Koller. And: “It will certainly take a moment before we get a certain reason everywhere. You need about three months for that.”